“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

also dissatisfied with your existence, you wicked

 

The mood was strange.

 

couldn’t

 

swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put

 

chest to chest

 

my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with,

 

mean anything. There are

 

you doing here, then? Hurry up and

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

resemble each other, right?” The man came closer, as if there

 

you don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

swiftly, the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling

 

was twice her size,

 

who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in

 

kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching each other

 

hopeless and wretched all at

 

woman’s eyes

 

not have seen me. I was only a ghost in this dream,

 

that woman smiled at me—a meaningless,

 

in my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t been able to see previously

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I

 

room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the shadows in this empty

 

***

 

right into my eyes had me twitching,

 

me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed I was

 

am I? Who got me here? What happened

 

my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm underneath me jostling me fully

 

I wanted to cry.

 

next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words

 

looked at him, taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face untouched. He

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

hand and run my fingers through his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater than anything else at

 

almost a whisper in

 

of anything. It felt like it

 

life and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before

 

my own

 

and hoarse as well, a whisper

 

“What…?”

 

I’ve been broken for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed.

 

knew very well, something that had

 

once they realized I wasn’t what they had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name like he

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me

 

a situation where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t seem

 

until I pressed hard on the

 

such a silly joke, Izek still kept on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted look in his tired

 

fully, enveloping me in his warmth, but he did not

 

torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing in his

 

understand why my

 

but I didn’t remember it at

 

don’t look at me like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always all

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant man,

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